Mark Lord wrote: ..
I think it could be even more clever, using a binary search or something on the remaining chunks, so that it takes less time to skip over a huge stretch of sequential bad sectors (scratch on media). That would probably be best all around.
.. Heh.. pity that spinning media cannot do a "READ BACKWARDS" type of operation. :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html